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Laureles, Texas.

A community in Cameron County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Cameron County’s.

Living in Laureles, Cameron County, Texas

Laureles, in Cameron County, had 4,111 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cameron County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cameron County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 4,111 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Laureles for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 6.5% Cameron County, August 2026; 7.5% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Laureles for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,049households
  • 7%of adults have a degree
  • 26 mintypical commute

What people in Cameron County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care31%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%
  • Building trades7%
  • Manufacturing6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cameron County had 154,673 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 70° and 52°; warmest in August, 93° and 77° 50° 60° 70° 80° 90° 100° J 70° 52° F M A M J J A 93° 77° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 70° and 52°; warmest in August, 93° and 77° 50° 60° 70° 80° 90° 100° J 70° 52° F M A M J J A 93° 77° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 70° and lows near 52°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 77°. About 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Isabel Cameron Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Cameron County

  1. Brownsville ISDSchool district5,916FTE
  2. Harlingen CisdSchool district2,767FTE
  3. Los Fresnos CisdSchool district1,628FTE
  4. San Benito CisdSchool district1,471FTE
  5. Valley Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,234FTE
  6. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs818
  7. Valley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital781FTE
  8. Valley Baptist MED Cntr BrownsvilleGeneral hospital684FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 176 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,829 people in all across the county; Laureles has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. Cold wavesRelatively high
  2. HurricanesRelatively high
  3. Heat wavesRelatively moderate
  4. HailRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laureles’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cameron County.